The Battlefield Doctor

The Battlefield Doctor

Established in WWI, triage is the process of quickly determining the urgency and priority of a soldier’s treatment, based on the severity of their wounds, to establish the order and priority of emergency treatment and transport for the patient.

When planning a complex project timeline, project managers must first identify the most critical elements in the project. Triaging those elements includes breaking them into smaller iterations, or chunks, and enabling the ability to attack the smaller pieces first. Prioritize the associated tasks pragmatically. When communicating with team members and stakeholders, provide real insight into what can be achieved within the constraints of the deadline given. Don’t tell stakeholders what you think they want to hear, but what they need to know.

When contending with tight deadline constraints in planning a project timeline, it seems everything required simply can’t fit in the time span you’ve been told the project must be completed by.

Take a frank and realistic view of the time required for each activity component, then prioritize the most important and impactful. Get them on your timeline and break them into smaller iterations to facilitate a workflow delivering a sequence of ‘done’ pieces.

Key Takeaways

Assess what will take the most time

Decide what is most important

Identify which will have the greatest impact regardless of which is due first

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Matthew Williams is an IT professional with expertise in systems engineering. Since joining T2 Tech Group, he has been a key resource on a variety of technological and operational IT initiatives for major clients. He is currently conducting several internal projects and remains in charge of the entire T2 Tech internal environment, T2 Tech lab and its 35 servers. Over his career, Matthew has consistently provided value to clients as he delivers systems-engineering support for major healthcare and commercial infrastructure projects.

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